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(No Model.)

N. B. LE BLOND.

OVERDRAW LOOP FOR BRIDLES. No. 304,331 Patented Sept. 2, 1884.

WITNESSES? INVENTIIIR:

Q1. gimkeomuk UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NAPOLEON 13. LE BLOND, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF' TO ALONZO C. RAND, OF SAME PLACE.

OVERDRAW-LOOP FOR BRIDLESf SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 304,331, dated September 2, 1884.

1 Application filed June 6, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NAPOLEON B. LE BLOND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State 5 of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Overdraw-Loops for Bridles; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, reference being bad to the accompanying r0 drawings.

My invention relates to the construction and attachment of overdraw-loops for bridles; and the object of the invention is to provide metal loops and means for securing them which will allow freer movement of the overdraw, and be less bulky and more ornamental than the ordinary leather loops, and which will be more durable than metal loops as commonly fastened by riveting to the crown-piece. This object is attained by means of the devices illustrated in the drawings, in whicl1- Figure l is a longitudinal sectional view of a portion of the crown-piece of a bridle, with the loops and layer by which they are secured in place. Fig. 2 shows an open loop; Fig. 3, a plan of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 a single loop and plate.

A is a portion of the crown-piece of a bridle, upon which the overdraw or overcheck loops are fastened.

B is a leather layer for securing the loops to the crown-piece, and e e are the loops riveted to a thin base or plate, a, or cast in one piece with such base or plate. The loops may be closed, as e in Figs. 1, 3, and 4. or open, as e in Fig. 2, and may be fastened to separate plates, as in Fig. 4, or two, at the proper distance apart, fastened upon the same plate, as in the other figures.

In securing the loops to the crownpiece, a suitable leather layer, as B, is provided, and has two slots cut at proper points to pass over the loops. The loopsare then passed through the slots, and the layer, with the loop plate or plates beneath it, is stitched to the crownpiece, holding the loops securely in place.

I am aware that it is not novel to provide overdraw-loops attached to a metal plate, and that it is old to attach such plates to the crownpiece by riveting; and I am aware, also, that harness-trimmings have been attached to harness between two pieces of leather. I therefore do not claim, broadly, such construction or combination; but

\Vhat I do claim as my invention, and de sire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the crown-piece of a bridle, of metal overdraw-loops attached to a plate and secured to such crown-piece by means of a leather layer having slots through which such loops protrude, and stitched to the crown-piece, substantially as set forth.

N APOLEONJB. LE BLOND.

In presence of JULIUs E. MINER, S. HOWELL. 

